Pizy

Once Arse have their inevitable collapse City are once again going to piss the PL. It’s just a joke now like the Bundesliga or Ligue 1 since Liverpool’s core is all past their best. Nobody is coming within 15 points of them this season. The thing that makes me most jealous about them is that so many of the players they buy just seamlessly plug in and are brilliant almost immediately. Just about every other club needs time with their new players. The likes of Haaland and Akanji look like they’ve been there for 5 years.

City have played just 7 and a half matches and already have a +20 goal difference on us. TWENTY. That’s how dreadful our start has been.

Haaland is a fucking robot. Can score in every way. It almost feels surreal seeing someone this massive move the way he does.

City as usual making United look like a pub team who can barely touch the ball. But also as seemingly always happens when these two meet they’re not killing the game off with all the chances they’re creating which means United will probably snatch at least a point with a couple of counters despite having like 15% possession.

Has Nkunku been good so far this season? I haven’t paid any attention to the Bundesliga.

Reece absolutely pocketed Zaha today. Was actually kind of hilarious watching him fend Wilf off with just one arm over and over again.

People were extremely harsh on Fofana today, btw. He had one terrible error on the goal but bossed it otherwise. He’s still finding his feet in a blue shirt. People need to give him plenty of time. Going forward, I’m fine if Potter switches us to a back 4 but for the love of God, don’t play Jorginho in that formation. Get Kante of DZ in there beside Kova.

Amazing what happens when you swap Mount out for someone like Pulisic who will at the very least make run between the lines. We have to stop treating Mount like he’s Messi and has to start every match. He’s in the worst form of his life and is actively hurting us.

OH MY FUCKING WORD

Playing well now and in control but failing with the final pass again and again.

Jorginho breezed past AGAIN. GET HIM OFF!

Saul at least got a look in before we realized he was a disaster. Let’s see what Zakaria can do. Can’t be worse than J5.

Where is Zakaria? Can we not play him instead of J5 for some added thrust and physicality?

Get in.

That’s twice now in the span of 5 minutes that our defenders have stood on the ball and let Ayew pinch the ball. We’re embarrassing, man.

Palace have barely touched the ball and yet their 2-3 attacks have been more dangerous than what we’ve created.

The only penetrative passes we make are long balls that nobody can get ahold of. Everything else is side to side where Palace can just park the bus and stifle us completely.

The link between midfield and attack again nonexistent with Mount totally invisible AGAIN.

1 attack, 1 chance, 1 goal. Fucking terrible defending.

Always nervous seeing Silva in a back 4 with Jorginho in front of him. Especially against a very tricky Palace attack.

Good Lord, it feels like I haven’t seen Chelsea play in 2 months! I don’t know whether to be excited that our squad could be refreshed and sharper now that Potter has worked with them for a few weeks or nervous that we’ll be extremely rusty having not played together for so long.

Ziyech is so poor now that I’ve come to actually dislike him. And it’s compounded by his piss poor body language. Looks like he isn’t bothered a bit. Potter needs to refresh the side by the time we next play. Start Broja, start Zakaria, start giving Carney some minutes. Stop trying to make Havertz, Mount, Azpi etc play themselves into form. It’s clearly not working.

We could hardly have hand picked an easier group and unless we win all of the remaining games we will be humiliated and knocked out. With one of the most expensively assembled teams in history. Horrendous lack of composure in the box + one or two guaranteed dreadful defensive lapses per match and this is the result. We can control and dominate almost every game but these two tendencies will always hold us back. Chance after chance after chance (including repeatedly from like a couple of yards out) and we can’t finish. And then our opponents pounce on one or two mistakes we make and score. That’s the Chelsea story.

Thought it was most,y fine with the exception of two players: Havertz and Mount. The same two who have been dreadful all season so far. Both have had nearly zero impact in the final third. Get both of those out of the team for a few matches until they wake the fuck up. Play Broja together with Auba or something. Thought overall we totally controlled the match and weren’t in danger at all. Created plenty of half chances that fizzled out at the final pass. At least we didn’t look all over the shop like we have recently.

Not only with the two oldest members of our squad in a formation they haven’t been playing much, but also Jorginho who has been woeful so far this season in front of them. This could either be a brilliant gamble or blow up in a big way.